From Spearhead to 500 Points: One Box, Two Very Different Plans
We love those little hobby moments when one person’s abandoned plan instantly becomes someone else’s new project.
This time it started with a very practical suggestion: maybe Stas could rebase his Spearhead into a proper 500-point force. Simple enough in theory — but hobby plans rarely survive first contact with personal taste.
“The AoS skeletons just don’t do it for us”
Stas’ response was immediate: the Age of Sigmar skeletons simply weren’t his thing. And honestly, that’s a completely fair place to land. Sometimes a kit is good, useful, even efficient for building an army — and we still just don’t vibe with it.
Instead of forcing the project, Stas did the sensible hobby thing: he started thinking about passing them on. Maybe selling them, maybe just handing them over to someone who’d actually use them.
And that, naturally, is where the next plan appeared.
A new life as a Foray team
Michał immediately volunteered to take them and turn them into a Foray team.
That idea fits perfectly with a thing we’ve been talking about more and more lately: keeping a bunch of 500-point teams ready to go, so we can pull new people into the game without needing them to commit to a full army right away.
It’s one of those hobby goals we really like — small, playable forces, quick onboarding, low barrier to entry, and a good excuse to keep collecting odd side-projects.
So instead of one more half-loved Spearhead sitting on a shelf, these skeletons are getting a second chance as part of a broader “let’s infect other people with the hobby” plan.
Yes, there were plague jokes
Of course, once Michał mentioned “infecting” new players, Ender immediately delivered the inevitable dad joke:
Plague guys infect people really well.
A classic. We respect it even if we groan.
Michał then pointed out the slightly sad reality that in Warhammer: The Old World, plague-flavoured options are currently tied to Chaos Daemons — and those are not exactly in the most comfortable spot right now.
So no easy plague-based recruitment strategy for the moment.
The real lesson: build what you actually like
This whole exchange felt very familiar to us. Not every range refresh lands. Not every new version improves on what came before. And not every starter-format force deserves to become a bigger project.
Sometimes the best army-building decision is not “how do we optimize this?” but simply:
Do we actually want to paint and play these models?
If the answer is no, passing them to someone with a better use for them is probably the healthiest possible hobby move.
And if the answer on the other side is “great, we’ll turn them into another compact intro force,” then everybody wins.
One image, many feelings
Michał also summed up some of the emotional side of the whole thing with a reaction image that really captured the mood of being disappointed by an unnecessary redesign:
Where this leaves us
So the current state of affairs is:
- Stas is officially not planning a return to Spearhead with these skeletons.
- Michał is happy to give them a new purpose.
- The long-term plan of building multiple 500-point forces to lure in new players is alive and well.
- We remain highly vulnerable to bad Nurgle jokes.
Honestly, that’s a pretty productive evening by our standards.